As you might know, Tanktalus is retiring his CBStats/last hours of cb service. In agreement with gods and Tanktalus, i have taken over the duties of providing these services.

I've been working hard to get the new codebase for last hour of cb and cb stats to work reasonably well. Stats are still a bit bare, though. And i'm pretty sure there are plenty of bugs.

The new services (and the PM nodes) are run by the new chatterbot account. It's profile provides the official documentation, that is, it will provide it as soon as i get around to writing the damn thing. Technically, i'm running TWO of these services under the same account, one live, one for development/request-for-comment purposes. So, i might sometimes link to one of the dev pages and ask for feedback.

All bug reports and feature requests and questions, at least for now, should go into this discussion, directly as an answer to THIS post (that way, CB automatically notifies me of any new messages). For short things, send me a private message. (Don't send it to chatterbot, i seldomly log into this account, except by way of perl scripts).

Q: So this new CB stats is a downgrade?

A: Yes and no. The stats are not as feature rich as the old ones. I'm working on that. But on the bright side, chatterbot has the ability to understand commands. Currently, there is only 1 useful one:

!snapshot

This will generate a snapshot of the current "last hour of cb" and send you a link via private message. This may take about minute, and it currently doesn't always work. But when you see something in chatterbox that you like, give it a whirl.

!cookie username

Make chatterbot send a user a cookie. It's one of my test commands, so no guarantees that cookies will be, in fact, delivered.

When you are not sure what commands are available, you can type !help in chatterbox.

Command parsing and answering takes some time, because of the relatively long work cycles i've set in the software. (My software could run hundreds of calls to PM a seconds to make processing lightning fast, but running a denial-of-service attack on my favourite website would be counterproductive).

Edit: The current command list is now available in the Chatterbox FAQ

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